The final installment in the series:
"The-Quest-For-Performance" from my blog Killing It with #perl
Discussing #python #numpy #numba, #rstats #openMP enhancements of Perl code and #simd
Bottom line: I will not be migrating to Python anytime soon.
Food for thought: The Perl interpreter (and many of the modules) are deep down massive C programs. Perhaps one can squeeze real performance kicks by looking into alternative compilers, compiler flags and pragmas ?
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A couple of data/compute intensive examples using Perl Data Language (#PDL), #OpenMP, #Perl, Inline and #Python (base, #numpy, #numba). Kind of interesting to see Python eat Perl's dust and PDL being equal to numpy.
OpenMP and Perl's multithreaded #PDL array language were the clear winners here.
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 | Lessons learned: A) Performance freaks to stop using #rstat 's runif for random generation. The Hoshiro random number generator arxiv.org/abs/1805.01407 is 10x faster. Implementations in #perl 's #PDL, #rstats (dqrng) and #python #numpy are within 20% of each other B) But does it make a difference in applications? To get to the bottom of this, I coded a truncated random variate generator in #rstats and #perl using #pdl (as well as standard u/perl) using the #GSL packages metacpan.org/pod/PDL::GSL::CDF & metacpan.org/pod/Math::GSL for accessing the CDF & quantile functions. In this context, it's the calculation of the #CDF that is the computationally intensive part, not the drawing of the random number itself. C) I should probably blog about these experiments at some point. Note that #pdl (but not base #perl) are rather competitive choices for large array processing with numerical operations. I mostly stay away of #python , but would not surprise me that for compute intensive stuff (where the heavy duty work is done in C/C++), it does not matter (much) which high level language one uses to build data applications preview.redd.it/qn00sx78gbuc1.… preview.redd.it/4by4jbh9gbuc1.… submitted by /u/ReplacementSlight413 |
